Chapter 81 The Child Was Switched
"Do you know you were wrong?"
"No, you're scared!"
"You're afraid of losing what you've already got, but you're even more afraid of having your dirty deeds discovered!"
"That's why you've framed Lao San time and time again."
"When you were little, you were jealous that he was smarter than you, so you tricked him into going out and selling him!"
"Now that I've finally found him, you're going to smear him again."
Are you even human?
These words caused an uproar in the audience.
Huo Tingtao's pupils also contracted sharply, and a variety of thoughts rushed into his mind.
Actually, he had a bad feeling when he saw the two men with bruised and swollen faces come in.
But he knew that it was precisely at times like these that he couldn't afford to lose his composure.
Moreover, so many years have passed since this incident; it's not that simple to investigate.
Even if we find out, so what?
Back then, he was just a nine-year-old child.
The abduction of the third child was all done by that person; it had nothing to do with him!
He just made up an excuse to coax the third brother out.
Furthermore, when the third brother came back, he tested him several times.
Huo Tingtao was certain that the third son remembered nothing of what had happened in the past.
Thinking this way, he wasn't so panicked anymore.
But Huo's mother's words just now were like a wake-up call. For a moment, Huo Tingtao couldn't tell whether his mother was bluffing him or she had really discovered something.
After several changes in expression, it finally turned into a deep sob.
"mom--"
"I was terribly wrong about this, and I have let Lao San down."
"You can hit me or yell at me, I'll take it."
"Son, I only beg you not to say such hurtful things anymore."
"Mom, I'm begging you..."
Huo Tingtao was a ruthless man; as he said this, he slammed his head against the ground repeatedly.
Before long, his forehead was covered in bruises.
This distressed Dong Lihua greatly, and she quickly went forward to pull him away.
"Tingtao, get up quickly."
"Aunt, don't worry about it. I was wrong to do this, and it's understandable that Mom is angry."
How can we ignore that?
If they keep smashing it like that, their brains will definitely be damaged.
Dong Lihua immediately said, "Sister-in-law, he already knows he was wrong. You've already hit him and scolded him, so let's just let this matter go."
Huo Tingtao remained silent, only kowtowing repeatedly.
Even though things have already gone this far, he's still pretending.
Huo's mother sneered, "You should kowtow to a few more people, especially to your own mother, Dong Lihua. She has protected you a lot over the years!"
Upon hearing this, Dong Lihua was completely stunned.
It took me a long time to react.
"Sister-in-law, what do you mean by that?"
"What do you mean I'm Tingtao's biological mother? My child was lost 29 years ago!"
"No! The child you lost is mine!"
Even knowing that Dong Lihua was unaware of this matter, Huo's mother still found it hard not to feel hatred.
She turned her face away and wiped away her tears.
But the tears kept falling like beads from a broken string.
At this moment, no amount of words could comfort a mother's wounded heart, and Jiang Si did not try to comfort her mother-in-law.
He simply handed over the handkerchief.
After calming down, Mrs. Huo continued, "The child wasn't lost; Yang Zhiqi deliberately abandoned him at the gate of the orphanage."
"Impossible! You're talking nonsense, Zhiqi isn't that kind of person."
As if to prove her point, Dong Lihua shouted, "I gave birth to this child, how could I not recognize her?"
Mrs. Huo didn't want to say more: "Whether it is or not, you can just ask Sister Tian and you'll know."
Yes, yes, and Sister Tian too.
Dong Lihua grabbed Tian's hand. "Sister-in-law, you helped me deliver the baby that day. These two children look completely different. How could I not recognize them?"
"Besides, they are a month and a half apart, and their body types are different, so I couldn't possibly be mistaken."
Upon hearing this, Sister Tian blushed instantly, and after a long while, she said apologetically.
"I'm sorry, sister, I didn't have enough breast milk back then, and I could only barely feed one child."
"If your man can't bear to part with his own child, then let me feed the one you gave birth to first every day."
"One of them eats his fill every day, while the other can only satisfy his cravings."
"By the time you finish your postpartum confinement, the two babies will have been reversed in size."
It was only at this time that Sister Tian realized that the two children actually looked quite alike.
You can tell because she feeds them so often.
But ever since Dong Lihua began her postpartum confinement, Yang Zhiqi has never let her hold the baby again.
So when she first saw the child, she didn't recognize him.
"Little sister, I'm so sorry."
“My family was really poor back then, and you know my husband has a disease.”
"When your husband brought the child back, he gave my family a bag of millet and some money. I really..."
Sister-in-law Tian didn't say what came next, but Dong Lihua understood.
No wonder he treated Tingtao better than his own child before the child was lost.
At the time, she couldn't understand and accused him of favoritism.
But he said that since he had promised his cousin and his wife, he had to raise the child well and not break his promise.
At the time, she believed it and thought that the man she had found was kind and righteous.
Over the years, he has frequently mentioned that he wants to treat Tingtao better.
She lost her own child and then raised Tingtao for seven years.
So, without realizing it, that favoritism was transferred to Tingtao.
She never dreamed that Tingtao was actually her biological son!
If Dong Lihua was only half-convinced by what Sister-in-law Tian said, then what her brother-in-law Yang Zhiqiang said next completely confirmed that Tingtao was his son.
Yang Zhiqiang said, "Sister-in-law, I really didn't know about my brother switching the children. It was all his own idea."
“I told him off then, but you know how stubborn my brother is!”
"Otherwise, he wouldn't have deliberately disfigured himself."
Dong Lihua was stunned for a moment, "What do you mean he deliberately disfigured himself? Wasn't that an accident?"
Because the factory also gave them a subsidy.
Yang Zhiqiang didn't know whether to call his sister-in-law stupid or what.
My brother has worked in the steel factory for so many years, how could he possibly make such a basic mistake?
He said, "Haven't you noticed that Tingtao and my elder brother are looking more and more alike? My elder brother was worried that he would affect Tingtao, which is why he took such drastic measures against himself."
After that, Dong Lihua couldn't hear a single word he said.
At this moment, her mind was a complete mess.
On the one hand, she was happy that her son was still alive.
On the other hand, she didn't know how to clean up this mess.
In the end, she could only place her hopes on Huo Tingtao.
"son--"
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